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― dow, Thursday, 29 November 2012 00:13 (eleven years ago) link
NUMERO TO RELEASE LP BY PROTO-METAL PRODIGIES MEDUSA UNHEARD 1975 ALBUM FROM CHICAGO SOCERER METAL ACT MARKS FIRST STEP INTO UNCHARTED TERRITORY FOR ACCLAIMED REISSUE LABEL HEAR A SONG AND READ MORE AT DECIBEL: http://www.decibelmagazine.com/featured/streaming-medusa-strangulation/ Chicago's reputation will forever be tainted by the horn-ravaged corniness of their eponymous band. Medusa's First Step Beyond could have forever altered the perception of Chicago rock history had it managed to make the leap from tape to its destined vinyl pressing. Instead, this mish-mash of Sabbath, Hawkwind, and Amon Duul II remained petrified in the Corycian Caverns, or rather the drummer's basement. Self-produced on four track in 1975, the sole transmission from Medusa's repertoire appeared on the extremely mysterious Pepperhead label, whose proprietor allegedly disappeared after a bad trip and has never been seen again. Housed in cushy mock-velvet and screened in blood red and gold, and art directed from the band's elaborate original stage props and artwork, we have positioned this unreleased opus to finally reach its destination: the turntables of pot-smoking teenagers, young and old. The Medusa reissue, due February 12th, marks the venerated reissue label's first foray into the outer reaches of proto-metal, scuzzball garage, frazzled psychedelia, and spit polish glam that will be rolling out throughout the calendar year, including a companion compilation to First Step Beyond due Fall of 2013. HEAR ALBUM TRACK "STRANGULATION" HERE: http://soundcloud.com/biz-3-publicity/medusa-strangulation SEE ALBUM TRAILER HERE:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZpwTZYGW2I&feature=youtu.be FIRST STEP BEYOND TRACKLISTING 1. Strangulation2. Transient Amplitude3. Frustrations Foot4. Temptress5. Feelings Of Indifference6. Black Wizard7. Unknown Fear
― dow, Thursday, 29 November 2012 00:16 (eleven years ago) link
second and last attempt to paste trailer from YouTubehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZpwTZYGW2I&feature=youtube
― dow, Thursday, 29 November 2012 00:18 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcgKuGPB1a0
Not sure what traction they have outside NZ, but I'm really stoked Beastwars seem to be reaching some sort of Mastodon crossover status after their self-titled debut last year; there's enough bogans in the country that we've been ripe for a stoner-y band w/popular appeal to catch on. Great 70s Doctor Who low-budget vibes to the video, too.
― etc, Thursday, 29 November 2012 01:20 (eleven years ago) link
Low budget or not, that video rules!
― SeanWayne, Thursday, 29 November 2012 04:20 (eleven years ago) link
This video reminds me of something I've been noticing that maybe hasn't been addressed in music but more in heavier/extreme music..
Age.
Back in the day, a band wouldn't be caught dead with some "old" dude in the band. Peoples acceptance of these things probably isn't anything that they've even thought about or noticed. I couldn't imagine looking through Hit Parader BITD and seeing a band I'd never heard of with a cruster, grey bearded or balding goon and take em seriously. Its just always seemed to be a young mans' game to be in a band. Whenever I'd think of elder statesmen it would be guys that have aged while in bands, AC/DC, the Stones, etc.
But now it seems the norm for any sludge or post metal type thing is dudes in the 40s. Or any newer band doing the like, or anything atmospheric or even blackened for that matter being done by hella young dudes might not get the respect at first. I have seen a trend too of newer school grind bands being older cats, but having a young drummer.. (cuz old cats can't play that shit on drums..lol)
Maybe I'm totally out of my tree, or maybe cuz I'm old now I notice the older dudes more.. When i get asked what kind of music i play currently i usually say old Man Metal.. or to barrow and expand on a quote from Kowloon Walled City, "4 dudes playing to 40 dudes" all in their 40s..
― SeanWayne, Thursday, 29 November 2012 04:38 (eleven years ago) link
Metal is the new Jazz.
― Siegbran, Thursday, 29 November 2012 07:52 (eleven years ago) link
I don't think Medusa's vinyl pressing was destined seeing as it didn't happen for 30 years!
Mixtarum Metallum IV: The 20 Best of 2012http://www.popmatters.com/pm/tools/full/165770
Pretty good list, like that they include Ufomammut and Conan, two releases that Decibel dropped the ball on. I don't know why they won't rank 'em, as they obviously have the numbers to differentiate from the other couple hundred releases the staff voted for. I'll list the albums out on Year-End Critics' Polls 2012
― Fastnbulbous, Thursday, 29 November 2012 16:04 (eleven years ago) link
xp Yeah, at one time metal was a young genre! Now it's not. It's worth discussion though -- are there bands that you've seen that really didn't have a significant percentage of the audience in their 20s? I've been to a lot of metal shows lately and there's always a bunch of kiddies with lots of energy, balanced out by the greying geezers in the back (or this graying one hovering right on the edge of the mosh pits).
― Fastnbulbous, Thursday, 29 November 2012 16:15 (eleven years ago) link
harvey milk was a pretty old crowd when i saw them
― i dream of booze pinata (jjjusten), Thursday, 29 November 2012 16:23 (eleven years ago) link
anyone else spin the new incantation yet? didn't make a huge impression on my initial listen this morning but it seemed solid enough. expect further listens will help."profound loathing" was a nice, doomy standout.
and not gonna lie, I miss the grimey golgotha sound. I know it's not coming back, I just can't help it.
― original bgm, Thursday, 29 November 2012 16:25 (eleven years ago) link
it's on spotify btw
― SeanWayne, Wednesday, November 28, 2012 10:38 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this kind of ties in with this, but as another angle of the age thing, i was also surprised at how many YOUNG kids (and like YOUNG, maybe 21-23 yrs old) kids I saw at Saint Vitus like totally rocking out to shit they were playing off the old SST albums, like the group of kids that were totally smoking weed in the pit that had backpacks and snap back oversized baseball hats with flat brims that basically dressed like the dudes in Odd Future
― U.S. State Department, Office of Rare Psych (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 29 November 2012 17:29 (eleven years ago) link
and i had come basically expecting myself at 38 to be on the young end of the show crowd
This Author & Punisher album is absolutely incredible. Ashamed to admit I'm just finally hearing it now, but man. I cannot believe this isn't gaining more traction! I can see this crossing over to a pretty big audience, actually. And, hell, even some of the quieter pieces could even attract some of those ambient techno/dubstep ilm-types. I mean, come on, if you dropped "Mercy Dub" on the web and claimed it came from some young bedroom producer from Brighton, I can see people who like Burial eating it up.
― HAPPY BDAY TOOTS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 29 November 2012 19:11 (eleven years ago) link
The fans are getting older and the younger ones help to keep things viable. But I'm trippin on the geezers actually in bands. That video made me realize-heres a relatively new band, and the singer is old, or at least older; it doesn't look like he graduated high school in the last 5 years, ya know? Bands 20 years ago couldn't make any head way with some old dude in their ranks, and maybe in some aspects of the industry this is still true, but I'm seeing more of it. I think the underground (for lack of a better term) is probably more forgiving of this, and those types of bands will be a little more DIY, so I'm sure that plays a part too..
― SeanWayne, Thursday, 29 November 2012 19:15 (eleven years ago) link
Mick Mars was a trailblazer and we never knew it.
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 29 November 2012 19:16 (eleven years ago) link
you are right about the A&P. The dub step thing is lost on me, but I can see fans of that getting into this.. its like Godflesh meets Aphex Twins with modern sounds and production.. its pretty dope.
― SeanWayne, Thursday, 29 November 2012 19:17 (eleven years ago) link
HA!! right? Mick Mars is like 10 years older than all of those guys!
Of course there is gonna be those examples, but I'm just seeing it WAY more these days
― SeanWayne, Thursday, 29 November 2012 19:19 (eleven years ago) link
coverdale had been around the block a few times before whitesnake blew up in the 80s
― U.S. State Department, Office of Rare Psych (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 29 November 2012 19:53 (eleven years ago) link
Listening to the Incantation album now. It's pretty great. I love those guys, though. Diabolical Conquest is my favorite of their albums by a long stretch (mostly for the 17-minute final track), but they don't have any genuinely bad albums, and their change-ups from death metal blasting to doom creepy-crawling are awesome.
― 誤訳侮辱, Thursday, 29 November 2012 19:54 (eleven years ago) link
I'm impressed by the Author & Punisher too, and love the Corsair.
― Fastnbulbous, Thursday, 29 November 2012 21:42 (eleven years ago) link
I think you're absolutely right SeanWayne. Metal is no longer a young man (or even a man's) game. I can testify.
― Nate Carson, Friday, 30 November 2012 00:53 (eleven years ago) link
Oh I just set myself up for a barrage of tranny jokes, didn't I?
Metal is now the Crying Game.
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 30 November 2012 00:58 (eleven years ago) link
Hasn't it always been, though?
― Bound by Habitrails (J3ff T.), Friday, 30 November 2012 01:32 (eleven years ago) link
So...who's buying the 15-CD Blind Guardian box that's coming out in February?
― 誤訳侮辱, Sunday, 2 December 2012 01:07 (eleven years ago) link
J3ff?
― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 2 December 2012 01:08 (eleven years ago) link
That's a lot of Blind Guardian.
― Bound by Habitrails (J3ff T.), Sunday, 2 December 2012 01:13 (eleven years ago) link
Apparently it's their whole discography, studio and live albums, plus a couple of discs' worth of rarities.
Blabbermouth rundown
― 誤訳侮辱, Sunday, 2 December 2012 01:21 (eleven years ago) link
Here's the list that was linked above.
Mixtarum Metallum IV: The 20 Best of 2012
Neurosis - Honor Found in DecayLiberteer - Better to Die on Your Feet than Live on Your KneesPallbearer - Sorrow and ExtinctionBlack Breath - Sentenced to LifeGod Seed - I BeginRoyal Thunder - CVIThe Secret - Agnus DeiHigh on Fire - De Vermis MysteriisEvoken - Atra MorsMartyrdöd - ParanoiaConan - MonnosTitan - BurnNapalm Death - UtilitarianDordeduh - Dar de DuhWitch Mountain - Cauldron of the WildNachtmystium - Silencing MachineNihill - VerdonkermaanGaza - No Absolutes in Human SufferingUfomammut - Oro: Opus Primum & Opus AlterAMENRA - Mass V
I'm listening to Liberteer, Gaza and God Seed for the first time, still processing.
― Fastnbulbous, Sunday, 2 December 2012 05:37 (eleven years ago) link
I hope that The latest Grand Magus record, The Hunt, gets some recognition from people. I hadn't listened to it in a while but it is a rifftastic monster. Such a great driving album, all forward motion with big old sing-along choruses. It deserves a wider audience.
― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 2 December 2012 06:04 (eleven years ago) link
I don't like that Liberteer album at all. I love grind and I get the concept and all, but those synthy horns make me cringe so much.
― wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Sunday, 2 December 2012 09:02 (eleven years ago) link
Horny synths would be better.
― endless budgie (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 2 December 2012 10:04 (eleven years ago) link
I liked The Hunt so much I went back to their previous albums to re-listen, and bought a couple on CD.
― Fastnbulbous, Sunday, 2 December 2012 16:44 (eleven years ago) link
way late but the new converge is great, man they are making some excellent records these days
― call all destroyer, Sunday, 2 December 2012 18:33 (eleven years ago) link
I do need to track down that Grand Magus. I've really liked their last couple and I kept waiting for the new one to show up in shops, when it didn't, I kinda forgot all about it.
kinda half-jokingly lol @ Converge making excellent records "these days", imho, they've been making excellent records for about a decade now
― HAPPY BDAY TOOTS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Sunday, 2 December 2012 21:54 (eleven years ago) link
I don't find Converge in the least appealing. One of the many where I accept they're good at their thing but their thing has the appeal of a bag of shit.
― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 2 December 2012 22:32 (eleven years ago) link
― HAPPY BDAY TOOTS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Sunday, December 2, 2012 4:54 PM (47 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
it's prob true, i took a break after jane doe because i didn't really dig that album but now i'm back
― call all destroyer, Sunday, 2 December 2012 22:42 (eleven years ago) link
― EZ Snappin, Sunday, December 2, 2012 5:32 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
also i appreciate this, they're an occasional thing for me
― call all destroyer, Sunday, 2 December 2012 22:43 (eleven years ago) link
I'm sure I'd like them live, but the rest of the bill would have to be stellar for that to happen because I'm not buying a ticket with the hope that I won't hate it.
― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 2 December 2012 22:45 (eleven years ago) link
I would have liked to see Kvelertak on their latest tour but I was out of town when they came through.
― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 2 December 2012 22:46 (eleven years ago) link
that was the wrong show to be scheduled for a tuesday night here but i did in theory want to see it
― call all destroyer, Sunday, 2 December 2012 22:47 (eleven years ago) link
It was a Thursday here, but I was heading out of town at 5 the next morning. I couldn't do what you did for the Agalloch show a few years ago. Thanks again for that sacrifice!
― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 2 December 2012 22:49 (eleven years ago) link
I have it on good authority that Kvelertak will be doing a much more substantial US tour in 2013.
Re Converge live: When I saw them on tour with Dethklok, Mastodon and High On Fire, they were pretty good, musically speaking, except that Bannon sounded even more like a relentlessly barking Rottweiler than usual and he was running back and forth onstage doing what looked a lot like a Nazi salute. It was a little off-putting. Also, they were the only band that looked dwarfed by the stage, somehow. I haven't made it all the way through the new album.
― 誤訳侮辱, Sunday, 2 December 2012 22:55 (eleven years ago) link
― EZ Snappin, Sunday, December 2, 2012 5:49 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
that was a blast!
― call all destroyer, Sunday, 2 December 2012 22:56 (eleven years ago) link
Next time you come to Dallas for a show I promise you can crash for a night. :)
― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 2 December 2012 22:57 (eleven years ago) link
thanks for the Kvelertak upcoming tour insight, 誤訳侮辱. And the Converge live review. That doesn't sound like it would convert me.
― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 2 December 2012 22:59 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, I've actually never seen Converge live, but based on what I know of those guys, I can't believe that Bannon's arm thing was anything but pure accident or something.
Would love to see Kvelertak.
― HAPPY BDAY TOOTS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Sunday, 2 December 2012 23:12 (eleven years ago) link
Seen Converge a couple times, never been that impressed. I don't know, they're fine, but not really my thing.
― Bound by Habitrails (J3ff T.), Sunday, 2 December 2012 23:20 (eleven years ago) link